Wikileaks Founder

• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange files fresh appeal against extradition to U.S.

  Assange remains in London's high-security Belmarsh Prison, where he has been since he was arrested in 2019 for skipping bail during a separate legal battle.

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  Jul 1, 2022
  
• U.K. court to hear U.S. appeal in Julian Assange extradition case

  In January, a lower court judge refused an American request to extradite Assange on spying charges over WikiLeaks' publication of secret military documents a decade ago.

  World

  Oct 27, 2021
  
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• Trump administration offered to pardon Julian Assange, lawyer says

  The lawyer said Trump offered to pardon Assange if he identified the source for the 2016 election publications.

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  Sep 18, 2020
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• Julian Assange extradition hearing paused over fears lawyer exposed to coronavirus

  Assange is fighting American prosecutors' attempt to get the British government to send him to the U.S. to stand trial on spying charges.

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  Sep 10, 2020
• Julian Assange’s bid to delay U.S. extradition case rejected by judge

  The U.S. authorities accuse Assange of conspiring to hack government computers and of violating an espionage law in connection with the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011.

  World

  Sep 7, 2020
• Ecuador, U.K. seek solution to end standoff over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

  Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for more than six years.

  World

  Sep 26, 2018
• WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange gets Ecuador citizenship after 5 years living in embassy

  Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after more than five years of living in asylum at the nation’s embassy in London.

  World

  Jan 11, 2018
• Swedish prosecutor drops rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement Friday that Marianne Ny "has decided to discontinue the investigation."

  World

  May 19, 2017